1. Remember long ago when I posted about how much I just LOVE grad school and all that surrounds it and oh it’s just so exciting! And then you may recall I mentioned at some point, probably in the middle of the semester, I would pretty much loathe the whole deal and wish I were dead?
2. Yeah. I’m there.
3. There’s just so much due. And to do. Why do we have to turn shit in? Why can’t we just sit around all day and talk about turning things in? Or better yet, the theory behind turning things in. I mean, other than the fact that that’s useless.
4. When this is over I will never feel busy again.
5. Speaking of busy, our cat is insane. She is busy. She does this darting thing where she charges through the house at full speed, scaling furniture, bolting round the kitchen, over the chairs, down the hall. I love this feline so much she may turn me into a cat person. Hahaha. Yeah right.
6. Which reminds me, Ava asked the other day why old people always have “so many cats” and I said well they don’t, really, it’s more of a stereotype, and then she proceeded to list all the characters in her books who are old and have cats and I didn’t have the heart to tell her books aren’t real. I love that she still does that.
7. AND speaking of old people, some 9-year-old who sits behind me in one of my classes mentioned something about “people my age” and I realized she really thinks I’m old the way I used to think 30-year-olds were old. You know, when I was 18, and was going to be 18 forever.
8. Okay people, do years go by faster now than they did before? I SWEAR a year took a lot longer to pass when I was 18 or 19 or 20 than now. (And I don’t think it was because I spent most of those years in a black-out, but maybe). Then all the sudden a few years ago Christmas started arriving 6 months earlier each year (which works pretty well for my neighbors who leave their lights up all year, but not so much for me). Anyway, why is that? Why do years go faster? Because we’re so much busier now? Because our days are too filled? Because we thought we’d live forever then? Does our perception just change? Can I do something to make the years slow down again?
9. By the way, I gotta be honest, I wouldn’t be totally heart-broken if my baby slept past 5:30am or 6am once in awhile. Just throwin’ that out there.
10. Also, my brother and his wife are about to have their third child. Fighting the urge to send them a condolence card. You know, for the end of all things as they know it. But that may not be totally appropriate. And you all know how focused I am on appropriateness.

But totally stoked to meet my new nephew soon. Happy Halloween people.  Check these photos out. My friend Tracy Teague is amazing.

Sorry they aren’t Halloween-related. Those will have to come later. These will make ya smile anyway.